<TITLE>13. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 One more thing I want to get to the church... Now, some of you setting here, last night when the anointing struck me, I could feel them little flares in there... I've been trying to think of it. I jotted it down here so I wouldn't forget it. I caught that last night, that you think, well, I did do-and-so, I did so-and-so. Many times I find people won't even come in the prayer line and won't even take their number when they're called. They're afraid that will be called up, certain things. Now, I used to blast that right out. You all know that. And not 'less I'm actually led to do it, I don't do it no more.
Now, you will make your mistakes. You say, "Brother Branham, no matter what I'd ever do, I'd never be worthy." That's right. But look! You say, "Brother Branham, at one time I didn't believe this message." That's right, I guess many of you didn't. I wouldn't have done it, I guess, myself. I couldn't have done it 'less God revealed it to me. You'd have... It's a revelation. The whole church is built on revelation. Without the revelation you'll never see it; you're blind. Jesus... The Bible said, I believe, Matthew 12, I believe it was, where He said, "Though Jesus had done so many miracles before them, yet they could not believe, because Isaiah said, 'They got eyes and can't see, ears and can't hear.'" And very... really holy people, the very cream of holiness. So holiness is not all. Holy living's not all. Faith is the main thing.

L-43 Now listen, church. I want to drop this in here, 'cause I believe the Holy Spirit told me to do it. You may be setting there (which some of you are, I know you are) disagreeing with me, right now. Now, I can call your name if you want me to. So, I know that, but I also can see farther than that, that you're going to believe it one of these days. So I'm just going to put this in, so you'll understand, so I can give you a little spot of grace here, when it ain't going to be too long till you're going to change your mind, some of you. Some of you won't.
But remember, when Sarah first heard that Man, which she is a type of the church, when she heard that... seen that sign take place to Abraham, she actually laughed about it in her heart. And she disbelieved and doubted it ever being so. Is that right? At that time, God would have rubbed her name off. Is that right? But He couldn't: she's part of Abraham. They're one.

L-44 And if you've really not been excited, not worked up in emotion, not got some church creed, but really received the Holy Ghost, and you're really part of Christ and still a little skeptic in your mind, God will not shove you off from that, because He can't: you're a part of Christ. He will bring you to the truth. Now, if you have never... you just... you might have spoke in tongues, danced in the Spirit, and done all these things there, that don't mean you got the Holy Ghost. Oh, my, my. That's a million miles from it.
Jesus never did say, "Now remember, I believe that when you receive the fullness of the Holy Ghost, you speak in tongues." Right. But Jesus never did... There's no Scripture in the Bible says that that's the evidence of the Holy Ghost. I want you to produce it, if it is. There's no such Scripture as that. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." And the fruit of the Spirit is not speaking in tongues. That's a gift of the Holy Ghost. After the Holy Ghost is come, that's one of the gifts that goes with it: preaching, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, all of those things are gifts of the Holy Ghost.


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